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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Lotta Crabtree... written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Knowles
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786412679
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Tap Roots written by Mark Knowles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical events that influenced the development of Tap dancing. Section One covers primary influences such as Irish step dancing, English clog dancing and African dancing. Section Two covers theatrical influences (early theatrical developments, "Daddy" Rice, the Virginia Minstrels) and Section Three covers various other influences (Native American, German and Shaker). Also included are accounts of the people present at tap's inception and how various styles of dance were mixed to create a new art form.
Author : Constance Rourke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Troupers of the Gold Coast; Or, The Rise of Lotta Crabtree written by Constance Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lotta Crabtree was very popular in San Francisco and in 1875 donated to the city a large water fountain, a gathering place for people after the earthquake and fire of 1906. The book discusses other actresses in late 19th century San Francisco.
Author : Nan Mullenneaux
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210913
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Staging Family written by Nan Mullenneaux and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. Nan Mullenneaux focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. Mullenneaux identifies patterns of macro and micro negotiation and reinvention and maps them onto the waves of legal, economic, and social change to identify broader historical links that complicate notions of the influence of gendered power and the definition of feminism; the role of the body/embodiment in race, class, and gender issues; the relevance of family history to the achievements of influential Americans; and national versus inter- and transnational cultural trends. While Staging Family expands our understanding of how nineteenth-century actresses both negotiated power and then hid that power, it also informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities—achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415938538
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Radcliffe College
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674627345
Total Pages : 2172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Notable American Women, 1607-1950 written by Radcliffe College and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 2172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.
Author : Ronald W. Lackmann
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786404001
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction, and Film written by Ronald W. Lackmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha Calamity Jane Canary and Belle The Bandit Queen Starr are first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West's most famous outlaws are covered in the second section along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers. Native Americans, entrepreneurs, doctors, reformers, artists, writers, schoolteachers, and other such respectable women are covered in the third section.
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ISBN 13 : 9780989538404
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush Girl written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle elementary historical biography. A child performer becomes rich and famous during California's gold rush.
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597142832
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Sierra Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range. With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that they must be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, born in Seville, Spain, in 1823, and brought to the Gold Country the provocative “Spider Dance”—impersonating a young woman repelling a legion of angry spiders under her petticoats. Or Otto Esche, who in 1860 imported fifteen two-humped Bactrian camels from Asia to transport goods to the mines. Or the artist Albert Bierstadt, whose paintings Mark Twain characterized as having “more the atmosphere of Kingdom-Come than of California.” Or multimillionaire George Whittell Jr., who was frequently spotted driving around Lake Tahoe in a luxurious convertible with his pet lion in the front seat. These, and scores more, spill out of the pages of this well-illustrated and lively tribute to the Sierra by a native son.
Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493011499
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Love Lessons from the Old West written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Calamity Jane’s relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Masterson—and learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife of Wild Bill Hickok and learn about the last love letter he sent before being dealt the dead man’s hand. Learn the story behind the charming performer Lotta Crabtree’s heartaches. And discover the tale of the dashing Kit Carson and his beautiful bride. This collection features the lessons learned by and from the antics of the women who shaped the West.
Author : Steve Lindahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578554822
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Living in a Star's Light written by Steve Lindahl and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Cain, the young son of an alcoholic 19th century gold miner is forced to grow up quickly, learning about life from the whiskey bars and brothels of the California Gold Rush era to the lights and music of the New York theater scene. Living in a Star's Light is Walter's story as his life connects with the famous actress, Miss Lotta Crabtree.
Author : Raoul Granqvist
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636398
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Imitation as Resistance written by Raoul Granqvist and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imitation as Resistance also offers American perspectives on the individual reputations of a number of British writers and their specific works, often down to the particular lines in plays and poems. The reader whose interest is limited, for example, to the singular reputation of a Dickens novel or a Byron poem may find the book functional for its broad bibliographical qualities. For cultural studies students, Americanists, and others, the book will demonstrate the complexity of cultural appropriation and the patterns of nineteenth-century American resistance and harmonization.
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Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book San Francisco Municipal Reports ... written by San Francisco (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595222765
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Red Dirt written by Gary Noy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Dirt is the story of one man's quest for personal knowledge. It is a journey to discover the influences of his homeland on his upbringing, values, and relationships. But it is much, much more. Red Dirt is also the chronicle of an expedition along California's Landscape of Imagination. It is the story of a trip down Highway 49, the fabled roadway that slices through the heart of the Gold Country the Mother Lode, home of the 49ers, the land of dreams. It is the true story of the past, present, and future of one of the most important regions in American Western history. Red Dirt is about who we are and to what we aspire. Red Dirt is about us.
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Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Michigan Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan State Library
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Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Michigan Library Bulletin written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469644177
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Constance Rourke and American Culture written by Joan Shelley Rubin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Constance Rourke (1885-1941) is one of the richest examples of the American writer's search for a "usable past." In this first full-length study of Rourke, Joan Shelley Rubin establishes the context for Rourke's defense of American culture -- the controversies that engaged her, the books that influenced her thinking, the premises that lay beneath her vocabulary. With the aid of Rourke's unpublished papers, the author explores her responses to issues that were compelling for her generation of intellectuals: the critique of America as materialistic and provincial; the demand for native traditions in the arts; the modern understanding of the nature of culture and myth; and the question of a critic's role in a democracy. Rourke's writings demonstrate that America did not suffer, as Van Wyck Brooks and others had maintained, from a damaging split between "high-brow" and "low-brow" but was rather a rich, unified culture in which the arts could thrive. Her classic American Humor (1931) and her biographies of Lotta Crabtree, Davy Crockett, Audubon, and Charles Sheeler celebrate the American as mythmaker. To foster what she called the "possession" of the national heritage, she used an evocative prose style accessible to a wide audience and depicted the frontier in more abstract terms than did other contempoaray scholars. Her commitment to social reform, acquired in her youth and strengthened at Vassar in the Progressive era, informed her sense of the function of criticism and guided her political activites in the 1930s. Drawing together Rourke's varied discussions of popular heroes, comic lore, literature, and art, Rubin illuminates the delicate balances and sometimes contradictory arguments underlying Rourke's description of America's cultural patterns. She also analyzes the way Rourke's encounters with the ideas of Van Wyck Brooks, Ruth Benedict, Jane Harrison, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford shaped her view of America's achievements and possibilities. Rourke emerges not simply as a follower of Brooks or as a colleague of De Voto, nor even as an antiquarian or folklorist. Rather, she assumes her own unique and proper place -- as a pioneer who, more than anyone else of her day, boldly and eloquently showed Americans that they had the resources necessary for the future of both art and society. By placing Constance Rourke within the framework of a debate about the nature of American culture, the author makes a notable contribution to American intellectual history. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
